Q. Is that tendency growing, so far as your observation is concerned?
A. About two years ago we had a good many calls. They seemed to want troops for every little disturbance. I think there were four calls for troops from the western part of the State—two in one day, I believe. The troops were not sent. There has been no call since this late riot, and there had not been before that for a long time.
Q. Has the National Guard been increased under your administration?
A. No, sir; we have diminished it. Companies that would not come up to the standard at the annual inspections were mustered out. Last year we mustered out twenty companies.
Q. I suppose the Adjutant General's book shows the number of the National Guard?
A. Yes; the most they can have is two hundred companies—two hundred is the limit.
Q. Those companies are not full, I believe, now?
A. Oh, yes; they are full. Our minimum is forty. They must all be above that. Some of them have fifty or sixty, and a few companies have more than that, even. The number of the companies is simply an arbitrary number fixed by statute.
Q. Any further statement you desire to make you can do so?
A. I have none. We have a large quantity of telegrams and papers.